Pubs

Keen not to waste valuable lockdown weeks, Star Pubs & Bars has started reopening preparations so that it’s Just Add Talent (JAT) pubs can open as soon as it is safe to do so

Red Oak Taverns has acquired its second pub package in 2021, increasing its estate to 190.

Recent data shows almost 2000 pubs closed their doors for good in 2020 – that’s five pubs every single day
Petition calling for Government to cut Beer Duty nears half a million signatures

Feed It Back shows how restaurants could secure a boost of £50k in revenue per year by learning how to turn passive guests into promoters. 

Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin is calling on the government to open pubs at the same time as non-essential shops reopen.

BBPA responds to ONS 2020 GDP figures

The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has today responded to new ONS GDP figures published for 2020

Greene King pub manager Steve Fraser has taken social media by storm with a sea shanty song he has written as an ode to his pub, the Mulberry Tree in Stevenage.

The Plough Inn, a popular village pub located in the countryside village of Longparish in Hampshire has been purchased by the local parish council

U.S. private equity firm Platinum Equity Advisors have announced that will not submit a revised takeover offer for pub company Marston’s after its initial

BBPA urges Government to give reopening date for pubs in newly published roadmap for sector recovery  

The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA)

Pubs and restaurants may be allowed to reopen in April so long as they do not serve alcohol, according to reports which emerged at the weekend.

More than 460 bar staff from across the UK’s licensed trade have used lockdown to train

for free with Diageo’s Learning for Life Hospitality Elevator programme.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will scrap the much derided “substantial meal” rule when pubs reopen, according to reports.